This is very helpful, than you for taking care and time to share it with the community @anon85228692.
Can you clarify a few points?
Sorry, in this context, what is your “Zettelkästen”? Is that the entire corpus of notes in Bear, or something somewhere else. So how are you structuring these links – I assume there is some sort of identifier apart from the tags, or am I misreading your guidance?
Nested tags I assume you are using nested tags in Bear – just wanted to be sure, since it would be difficult to maintain your approach without some sort of nesting I believe.
Discovery Bear is not very good at discovery in my opinion. I have a gargantuan list of nested tags. It is not simple to filter them. All we have is “Search notes” which consolidates search results from tags and notes, which is not always helpful. To search for a tag at a lower level you need to know what the top level tags is. Bear needs smart groups, or other parameterized searching. (This info could be available somewhere else, but I haven’t located it."
Daily Practice Are you taking intentional notes / capturing clips or other content, throughout the day? Is Bear a bucket that you set aside time to review and revise the captured notes?
Linking You didn’t mention Bear’s [[linking]] capability, which is very useful, although it doesn’t support backlinks, which is a shortcoming, IMO. Do you use Bear links (other than tags, of course)?
I really like Bear but feel it gets too fiddly real fast, so any guidance on better use of the app is always welcome. I’ll take much of your advice and consider how to use it for my own.